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I'm using the photo module to get the smart album AssetCollection. From that I can select the Panoramas album by referencing it's index, ...
Sep 14, 2017 - 19:00
zrzka
As I stated before, Black Mamba's goal is not provide just shortcuts, but other useful features as well. Today I released version 0.0.23 whi...
Sep 14, 2017 - 15:05
mikael
__Note__: The usage and API has changed a bit since this first...
Sep 13, 2017 - 22:37
robertiii
I have used the youtube_dl to get the url of a Youtube video.
```
info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
```
This returns the follow...
Sep 13, 2017 - 13:20
nibl
I discovered an issue with the share workflow. The resulting file name does not have the correct extension. It is always ".txt", even when t...
Sep 13, 2017 - 08:09
upwart
I would to run the excellent documentation tool Sphinx on Pythonista. Is there any chance to do that?
Sep 13, 2017 - 04:33
robertiii
A while back I enquirer on here about how to get a video to play. I was given a link and used it. I have figured out how to get the video to...
Sep 12, 2017 - 16:13
robertiii
Is it possible to have one view mirror another. For instance if I had a drawing app view that was being drawn in would show as I draw it in ...
Sep 12, 2017 - 16:09
robertiii
So in one function I have added a subview with the name ‘video’. In a different function i want to remove that subview. How would I go about...
Sep 11, 2017 - 14:02
nibl
Is there a Workflow to append a list of URLs to a document? There is a Workflow that creates a list of all URLs, but how would I append the ...
Sep 11, 2017 - 13:55
zrzka
Hi,
when I don't use Pythonista, I do use PyCharm on my Mac. Would anyone be interested in PyCharm plugin allowing you to run / test projec...
Sep 11, 2017 - 11:50
JonB
https://github.com/jsbain/viewbrowser.git
Inspired by the UIDebuggingInformationOverlay, which I couldn't get to run on my 32 bit device, t...
Sep 10, 2017 - 17:34
Sketo
How do I retrieve just the texture of a SpriteNode so that I can compare it to another?
When I compare sprite1's texture to sprite2's textu...
Sep 10, 2017 - 15:44
Phuket2
@omz. Sorry in advance if this post is stupid. I am back to looking at flex attrs again. It's been some time since I was looking at these. ...
Sep 09, 2017 - 01:29
ellie_ff1493
The notification library is really easy to use but I want to add a image as well as text to the notification. How should I go about doing th...
Sep 09, 2017 - 00:10
jimwims
I am writing a script for my iPhone using the ui module. I want the view to display in only the portrait orientation and not auto-rotate. ...
Sep 08, 2017 - 11:42
Brun0oO
Hi,
Is it possible to retrieve the objc class name from an ObjCInstanceMethodProxy class instance ?
I'm debugging a method call to an ObjCI...
Sep 08, 2017 - 11:33
Phuket2
Below, is just a super simple list dialog using a ui.TableView. Pythonista contains the dialog module which handles this way better. This ...
Sep 08, 2017 - 01:59
OldManKris
I’m trying to run the Recent Tweets.py example script using Pythonista 3 on iOS 11 beta 10. It says that I have no Twitter accounts configur...
Sep 08, 2017 - 00:07
marcus67
After a long pause I finally started to work on my Pythonista app Rechtschreibung (see https://github.com/marcus67/rechtschreibung) again. I...
Sep 07, 2017 - 21:54
Bjucha
Hello again
In my "game" I have added powerups that when player catches on green lasers will shoot from the spaceship. However they only fi...
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Sandwiched in between `Python for IBM i` and `Python for OS/390 and z/OS`... It took [a bit of work]...
Sep 06, 2017 - 14:14
shtek
here's my simple code test.py:
```
import console
console.hud_alert('test')
```
console.hud_alert(message[, icon, duration])
Show a ...
Sep 06, 2017 - 04:42
robertiii
I have a TableView and it initializes with one cell. I don’t know how to get rid of that cell.
```
class tvDelegate(object): #also acts as t...
Sep 06, 2017 - 04:15
robertiii
Is there a way to set a gradient as a background?
Sep 05, 2017 - 22:21
mikael
Is it possible to make a WebView have a transparent background, such that the content of an underlying view would be visible?
Sep 05, 2017 - 18:04
astrozot
Hi,
I need to use some features of the UITextField that are not included in the ui.TextField: specifically, I want to use a text with attri...
Sep 05, 2017 - 17:47
robertiii
How do I remove an image from an image view? I want the image view to remain but to remain blank with a black background
Sep 05, 2017 - 06:55
ramvee
Hi,
I wanted a list of modules importable in Pythonista and display corresponding help() text.
As i found help() spewing out text to console...
Sep 04, 2017 - 21:04
robertiii
So I'm looking for a way to duplicate a view into another view. I want the first view to be set up by the user. The user then hits a button ...
Sep 04, 2017 - 05:53
paultopia
Simple tweetstorm poster (break up long posts into numbered tweets), making use of the lovely api wrapper and ui wrapper omz built into the ...
Sep 04, 2017 - 03:05
mrcoxall
In January I was successful at getting several apps onto the App Store.
I just went back to load another one and I am now getting a Code Sig...
Sep 03, 2017 - 06:46
Alex812
I got an error when my program tried to open file f=open('dia.dat','r') if it starts from home screen.No errors if it starts from IDE. Error...
Sep 02, 2017 - 16:32
RickZou
That would be awesome. thanks.
Sep 02, 2017 - 00:18
Brando
Hello, I'm relatively new to python and I'm trying to figure out how I make my array, full of 1's or 0's, display a black or white pixel gra...
Sep 01, 2017 - 22:53
ellie_ff1493
Is there any easy way to get the text in a image?
I have looked about but can't find any way, are there any functions that can help?
Sep 01, 2017 - 20:03
robertiii
I am desperately trying to get a video from the camera roll and play it. I don't know how to use objc_util well enough though I've coded in ...
Sep 01, 2017 - 10:15
shtek
must click "Done" on right top corner to exit the mini pythonista?
ususally the share sheet disappears after execute sth.
why not pythonis...
Sep 01, 2017 - 04:03
shtek
i think the second is get_vcard
Aug 31, 2017 - 18:33
Olaf
@omz, can you please let us know whether you plan on publishing a new version to TestFlight (or extend the validity of the current version) ...
Aug 30, 2017 - 21:57
robertiii
I cannot get the imageview to update. Not sure exactly how to use this, but here’s the code.
```
image = photos.pick_asset(multi=False)
im...
Aug 29, 2017 - 23:54
rlmalisz
I'm working on a script that gathers readings from Xiaomi plant sensors. Using LightBlue I know that there's essentially a serial number wh...
Aug 29, 2017 - 17:20
upwart
I am running into a strange problem after my first steps into submitting a package in PyPI.
I had a 2.2.0 version of mypackage, which I had ...
Aug 29, 2017 - 11:33
hylo
Hi, all.
As the title suggests, I started to write ui module on desktop which bridges between ui.py on Pythonista and kivy on desktop.
To g...
Is this supported yet? Would love to be able to set the editor caret location and open the keyboard.
Aug 26, 2017 - 18:42
chibill
I have been doing some research into using the camera from objc_utils to allow for changing the Exposure and ISO along with some other setti...
Aug 26, 2017 - 09:59
epalzeo
Hello
i've code in python 3 to make animated graph with datas coming in realtime
for this, i use
```python
ani = FuncAnimation(fig, updat...
Aug 25, 2017 - 15:26
jamwheeler
Is there any plan or support for restructured text in Editorial? I've found it to be a much richer markup for scientific documenting than pl...
Aug 25, 2017 - 08:16
Ti Leyon
# Graphics Agnostic Python (GAP)
**GAP** is a visual interf...
Aug 24, 2017 - 23:43
laszlo.j.hermann
Is there any way to start a parallel thread from the scene?